New Syntax Highlighting in Forums and Journals

We've introduced an old favorite for syntax highlighting code in our forums and journals. In addition to the standard [ code ] tags that exist now, we have introduced a tag that we used to use readily in past versions of GameDev.net. The "new" bbcode tag that is available for use is the [ source ] tag.

The source tag requires an attribute specifying what language you want to use. Available language options are:

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FYI there are some small issues using it with articles thanks to the fact that they parse HTML by default but we'll work to get those resolved so that we can use this there as well for some of the larger blocks of code listings

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That's nice, but unfortunatelly it didn't fix the source code in old posts (the forum shows them on one long line and it's impossible to read it, making this forum very hard to use when you're doing what you are supposed to do - search first, ask only when you don't find the answer).